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Eating Ice Cream for Breakfast Makes You More Intelligent

Eating Ice Cream for Breakfast Makes You More Intelligent
Eating Ice Cream for Breakfast Makes You More Intelligent

A scoop of ice cream for breakfast can provide an unexpected brain boost, a Japanese scientist has found.

Subjects in an experiment carried out by Yoshihiko Koga, a professor at Kyorin University in Tokyo, had to eat three spoonfuls of ice cream first thing in the morning.

They then had to use a computer to complete a number of mental exercises, The Independent reported. 

Professor Koga found the people who had eaten ice cream had faster reaction times and were better at processing information than a separate group that hadn’t had any breakfast.

Their brain waves were also measured during the experiment by Koga, who reported an increase in alpha waves – associated with concentration, relaxation and mental coordination – in the group who had eaten the ice cream.

Koga then tried the same experiment with cold water to check if the ice cream’s temperature was simply shocking the subjects awake.

But while people who drank the cold water did show some level of increased mental performance and alertness, the effect was not as pronounced as with the ice cream.

Koga is an expert in psychophysiology, a branch of psychology concerned with the interaction between the body and the mind. 

His research focuses on the effect of certain meals and scents on stress as well as anti-ageing, according to his profile page on the university website, which also describes his hobbies as cycling and collecting cameras.

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